Poetry. California St. is one of the major thoroughfares in downtown San Francisco, the city where George Stanley was born in 1934, and left at age 37 to move to Vancouver. NORTH OF CALIFORNIA ST. collects 53 poems, all written between 1975 and 1999, originally published in four collections, all now out of print Opening Day (1983), Temporarily (a chapbook; 1986), Gentle Northern Summer (1995) and At Andy's (2000)."